But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Selfrighteous creates wars more often than other reasons.

The USA is a beautiful country...when you take the corrupt corporations and their government minions out of the equation.

Nothing like a bit of flattery to grease the wheels.

Today, with the way things are in all circles, in soccer, in society, in politics, where it seems anything goes, a gesture of honesty goes down well.

It is a terrible thing to grieve for someone who is not dead, not in love with someone else, but just no longer there.

Practice and enlightenment are not two.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.